Alia Martine Shawkat is an American actress. She was born in Riverside, California, to Dina Burke and actor Tony Shawkat. Her maternal grandfather, Paul Burke, was also an actor. Her father is from Baghdad, Iraq, and her mother has Irish, Italian, and Norwegian ancestry. Alia starred as Maeby Fünke in the Fox/Netflix television series Arrested Development, and as Gertie Michaels in the 2015 horror-comedy film The Final Girls.